Dealspl.us, which combines BensBargains.net and Digg.com, is an online social shopping community driven by its users and community. dealspl.us was founded on the principles of Web 2.0 design philosophy, allowing for tightly integrated content and user interactivity.

MB Technologies, developers of Bindows, the leading development framework for AJAX and Web 2.0 applications, and Netherlands-based Datheon, a premier software company, announced today that Datheon has become a Bindows Global Partner for the Dutch market.

Pattern: Concurrent Document Loader Problem: Need to load multiple documents and can't proceed until all of them are loaded Example: Load configuration files for an AJAX application

Dealspl.us, which combines BensBargains.net and Digg.com, is an online social shopping community driven by its users and community. It offers a distinctive place where user can share great bargains gathered from throughout the internet. dealspl.us was founded on the principles of Web 2.0 design philosophy, allowing for tightly integrated content and user interactivity.

ActiveGrid announced the release of ActiveGrid Studio 2.0, a development environment specifically engineered for enterprise Web 2.0 application development. The company also announced the release of ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an application server that allows companies to deploy Web 2.0 apps across 'lightweight,' commodity machines - the same winning application architecture formula proven out by Internet leaders such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon.

There are some fairly big issues with Ajax and I am puzzled. I think the Ajax community need to pay more attention here in order for Ajax to be really adopted. Before I get into the negatives about Ajax, let me clarify my position about Ajax first.

Sun Microsystems has announced that its ground-breaking family of workstations and servers earned an Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA). Sun's Ultra Series Workstations, and the Sun Fire X4100 servers and the Sun Fire T2000 server with CoolThreads technology received a combined Bronze award in the Design Strategy category. Co-sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the awards represent a celebration of the best and most innovative product designs of the year. This is the third IDEA win for Sun.

Sun Microsystems has announced new customer adoption of its breakthrough Sun Fire server family with CoolThreads technology. DigiTar, Joyent and Fotolog represent a new crop of Web 2.0 customers that have recently moved to the UltraSPARC T1 processor-based Sun Fire server line running the Solaris 10 Operating System(OS), the most advanced OS on the planet, to both support their growing online operations and to lower power, cooling and space costs significantly in their datacenters.

XAP represents a new way of developing, deploying and maintaining AJAX applications. It uses a declaratiave syntax (XAL, http://www.openxal.org/) for describing UI, Data, Data Binding - so that the only Javascript code that needs to be written is business logic. Everything else can be done declaratively (or even using visual development tools.

IBM has introduced a new IBM BladeCenter blade and System x servers and workstations geared to help reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology. The new systems enable up to 90% percent better application performance, and up to 163% percent better performance per watt today. The systems are designed and optimized to support more advanced computing with future quad core CPU models.

Microsoft and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft Office applications. The tool will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to select one of several Creative Commons licenses from within the specific application.

IBM Chairman & CEO Samuel J. Palmisano has opened IBM's first development lab in Russia as the company continues to increase its investment in high-growth countries. IBM will invest $40 million over the next three years in the Russian Systems & Technology Laboratory, which will employ up to 200 people by the end of 2008. The lab will focus on mainframe technology development and continues IBM's emphasis on utilizing skills and expertise around the globe, especially in high-growth countries such as Russia, Brazil, China and India.

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today that the first international AjaxWorld(TM) EuropeConference & Expo (www.ajaxworldexpo.com) will take place on May 7-8, 2007,in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Nexaweb Technologies, a provider of standards-based platform for building and deploying enterprise Web 2.0 applications, announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Nexaweb Japan K.K., has entered into a strategic partnership with Mitsubishi Electric Control Software Corporation (MCR), one of the most well-known integration services companies serving the utility systems market in Japan.

Microsoft releases Windows Live Messenger, which goes beyond the traditional instant messaging (IM) service, enabling people to connect and share, with free PC-to-PC calls and inexpensive calls from a PC to phones around the world, video calling, easy sharing with Sharing Folders, and more.

Cingular Wireless will offer its business customers access to corporate e-mail via Direct Push Technology, a feature of Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) upgrade, beginning on June 19, 2006.

Arkivio providing Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for the enterprise has announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data Systems independent software vendor (ISV) partner program. As part of its participation in the program, Arkivio will be ensuring interoperability between ARKIVIO AUTO-STOR and the Hitachi Content Archive platform.

Microsoft has announced two key advances in Windows Live Book Search, a service that will enable Web searchers to find answers from authoritative, trusted book content. The addition of two new participants, the University of California and the University of Toronto libraries, will result in an addition of digitized material, primarily out-of-copyright books, from these two institutions to the Windows Live Book Search service.

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products - including Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, Antigen Spam Manager and Antigen Enterprise Manager available to customers July 1, 2006.

Ubiquity Software and Microsoft announced they have signed an agreement to jointly develop market and sell converged communications solutions to telecommunications service providers worldwide. Through the alliance, the companies will deliver solutions that bring together Microsoft Connected Services Framework and Ubiquity's award-winning SIP Application Server (SIP A/S), enabling service providers to quickly and cost-effectively bring to market new revenue-generating services for businesses and consumers.

As a part of the Microsoft Security Response Alliance (MSRA)'s charter to help protect computer users from online threats, Microsoft led a group of global Internet service providers (ISPs) in announcing Protect Yourself This Summer, a weeklong effort beginning June 19 aimed at educating consumers about ways they can be more safe online this summer.

In a keynote speech to leading technology executives, Rod Smith, IBM's Vice President of emerging Internet technologies, declared that the technologies underpinning blogs, wikis and innovative sites like Google Maps and Wikipedia on the Web will transform the way productivity applications are developed - in some cases in as little as five minutes - using the ever-expanding palette of Web 2.0 components available for free on the Internet.

IBM and AvarSYS have announced a collaboration using IBM's Deep Computing Visualization (DCV) technology that can provide AvarSYS customers with visualization systems, particularly those customers migrating from Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) technology.

Microsoft announced manufacturing of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company's first software offering designed to run parallel, high-performance computing (HPC) applications for customers solving complex computations. Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 accelerates customers? time to insight by providing a reliable, HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools.

Rogers Business Solutions has launched Canada's first subscription-based encryption email service, hosted by IBM, which provides for the confidentiality of email communication for business users. Rogers Secure Mail encrypts information between sender and recipient with an easy-to-use service that is delivered by IBM and was developed by security software company Echoworx. Rogers Secure Mail will be available for $8.95 per month, per email address.

IBM has announced that analyst firm Gartner Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the IT operations management software marketplace based on total software revenue for 2005. This marks the fifth consecutive year that IBM maintained its leadership in the IT operations management software market.

Redback Networks announced that it has extended its existing relationship with IBM for the use of IBM's Applications On Demand Services. Redback believes that utilizing IBM's services will allow Redback to further focus on developing innovative IP-based products and services for its service provider client base. Redback products allow its customers to significantly lower the total cost of ownership of next generation smart broadband networks.

Microsoft has announced that it has formed the Interoperability Customer Executive Council to identify areas for interoperability improvements across its products and the overall software industry. Customers are working in increasingly heterogeneous IT environments and asking for a greater level of interoperability from their IT vendors. Microsoft is committed to building bridges across the industry to deliver products to its customers that are interoperable by design.

Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative has launched the next generation of Smart Watches for MSN Direct: the ABACUS Smart Watch 2006. These newest watches feature double the storage capacity of previous watches, improved download speed, a thinner bezel and several stylish bands.

The psychological experience of using the Internet is undergoing slow but constant change. Up until now, using the Web has involved 'going out' to Web sites. However, this is changing. Understanding this transformation, and plotting its direction, can provide us with a new understanding of where our Web technology is going. This destination can be called 'Web 3.0.'

PodZinger has been selected as a winner in the category of Best Web 2.0 Application for the 2006 MITX Technology Awards. The MITX Technology Awards, produced by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements.

MB Technologies, developers of Bindows, the leading development framework for AJAX and Web 2.0 applications, announced today the release of Bindows version 2.0 with enhanced support for Section 508 accessibility compliance, an industry first. Available today, Bindows 2.0 enables developers to reach all audiences effectively and efficiently by building Ajax and Web 2.0 applications that meet US Government and international standards for accessibility.

Amazon S3 is an innovative, exciting new service that is going to change the way we do computing on the web. Even though the service launched just a few months ago, numerous companies are already leveraging it for a wide range of purposes.

Tne Net Neutrality bandwagon has added a new gear with the passage of a bill that favors telcos over Net Neutrality proponents. There are several opinions in this debate, and one certitude: if you question at least one group too persistently, you get disinvited from the discussion.

The 'Net Neutrality' debate is heating up in Washington, DC and around the U.S., as legislation that may determine a key aspect of the future of the Internet as we know it works its way through Congress. On the surface, it seems to be a simple matter of giant telcos vs. giant web companies. But there are many currents flowing in these waters.

Online flower boutique Serenata Flowers has announced the launch of several new innovative website features that show how ecommerce can engage in the Web 2.0 model popularised by community-driven sites. The possibilities of Ajax have been exploited to enhance usability without compromising search engine optimisation or compatibility with disability guidelines.

The new developments on SerenataFlowers.com - super-quick image loading, an intuitive product-finding filter and a product 'quick view'- have exploited the possibilities of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to enhance usability without compromising search engine optimisation or compatibility with disability guidelines.

FinSock has announced that it will release a web-based small business software solution in June. The so-called 'Web 2.0' application will allow business owners and their employees the ability to break the confinement of the conventional office. It has had the benefit of two years of development and successful client reviews.

A three-member panel from a California State Appeals Court has ruled in favor of bloggers who revealed information about Apple Computer from confidential sources, only to earn the legal ire of the Cupertino-based icon. No less a personage than Walkter Cronkite was cited in defense of these bloggers.

Yahoo and eBay have announced a multi-year 'strategic partnership' with four major components: search (along with graphical advertising), online payments, a co-branded toolbar, and the emerging 'click-to-call' functionality. The companies said their agreement will be fully up to speed in 2007.